On Burkina Faso's terrible human rights record

Burkina Faso's human rights record collapses, NGO says, adding it to watchlist Burkina Faso is officially being added to the international human rights Watchlist of the NGO CIVICUS, as the Sahelian country is currently rated as "repressed". Over the past few months, military authorities have drastically escalated restrictions on civil society and intensified reprisals against critics. The sheer…